Americans can reach out to members of Congress on curbing Big Tech’s power by altering Section 230 as well as use smaller, upcoming social media platforms to bolster competition, according to law professor Alan Dershowitz. “Make sure that their members of Congress are sensitive and do something about 230. Subscribe to alternate platforms than the big three and try to create competition, and just expose this, make it, bring it to the public, make it clear to everybody that this is a great threat to the marketplace of ideas and freedom of speech,” Dershowitz, a Harvard Law School professor and constitutional expert, told The Epoch Times. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act shields Big Tech, including Facebook, from most lawsuits because it bars website providers from being liable for information “provided by another information content provider.” As the platforms have gained increasing market share in recent years, and taken increasingly …
Dershowitz on Defending the Constitution: Urge Congress to Act on Section 230
July 16, 2021
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